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Michigan Catholic Conference
August 29, 2015
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[ hack ]
The Michigan Catholic Conference notifies more than 10,000 employees, that their personal information has been compromised by an unknown hacker who could also have obtained their personal information.
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Utah Food Bank
August 29, 2015
Utah Food Bank notifies the donors of an access into its website by an unauthorized individual who could have gained access to personal data of more than 10,000 donors.
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http://www
August 28, 2015
NetPirates AKA @TheNetShip hack ecaytrade.com and dump about 50K usernames and hashed passwords.
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mumsnet
August 27, 2015
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[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Mumsnet is hit by a new wave of DDoS attacks.
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UK National Health Service
August 26, 2015
www.secamblive.nhs.uk, a UK National Health Service (NHS) site on which the organisation posts patients' stories describing their experience with illness is defaced by Moroccanwolf, as an act of protest regarding Western governments' lack of humanitarian actions in Syria.
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GitHub
August 25, 2015
Code repository Github is the victim of a massive DDoS attack. The site is likely targeted because of software projects hosted on the site that have allowed Chinese Internet users to bypass the Great Firewall's packet filtering and inspection tools.
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Totally Promotional
August 24, 2015
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[ hack, financial, retail ]
Totally Promotional, an internet seller of imprinted promotional products, notifies an undisclosed number of customers that attackers forced their way into its systems and gained access to some customer payment card data and other information.
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Royal Saudi Air Force
August 23, 2015
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[ hack, government ]
Mr.Xpr!, an Iranian hacker from Iran Hack Security Team defaces the official website of the Royal Saudi Air Force (http://rsaf.gov.sa).
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Auto Zone
August 23, 2015
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[ hack, retail ]
JM511 hacks AutoZonePro.com and dumps 49,967 customers' details: billing addresses (street and city), email addresses, hashed passwords, telephone numbers, customers' cities, and dates of birth. The attacker claims to have obtained a total of 162,000+ records.
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Western Governor's University
August 23, 2015
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[ leak, misconfiguration, education ]
JM511 dumps some data from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) after allegedly warning the university twice. The attacker also warns other universities of possible vulnerabilities including: Western Governor's University in Utah, the University of Minnesota, DePaul University, and Northern Illinois University.
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Philippine Bureau of Customs
August 23, 2015
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[ hack, ddos, government ]
In name of #OpCustoms, a group of hackers takes down the Philippine Bureau of Customs (customs.gov.ph). The hackers come from Anonymous-affiliated groups Pinoy LulzSec, Elite Cyber Security and MCA and PHU DDOS Squad.
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ClearVoice Surveys
August 23, 2015
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[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
In April 2021, the market research surveys company ClearVoice Surveys had a publicly facing database backup from 2015 taken and redistributed on a popular hacking forum. The data included 15M unique email addresses across more than 17M rows of data that also included names, physical and IP addresses, genders, dates of birth and plain text passwords. ClearVoice Surveys advised they were aware of the breach and confirmed its authenticity.
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Karnataka State Higher Education Council
August 22, 2015
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[ hack, education ]
The website of the Karnataka State Higher Education Council (kshec.ac.in) is defaced by a group that calls itself Clinkz48.
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State Information Technology Agency
August 21, 2015
In name of #OperationSA and #OpMonsanto, the Anonymous hack the South African government contractor State Information Technology Agency (sita.co.za) and leak its entire database.
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Carlos Loret de Mola
August 20, 2015
The Mexican government is suspected of using NSO Group spyware to compromise the personal devices of journalists, lawyers, activists, scientists, politicians, and civil society organizations. One of the victims is Carlos Loret de Mola, a journalist and on-air personality who reported on the alleged cover-up of a massacre in western Mexico.
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University of Rhode Island
August 20, 2015
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[ hack, education ]
The University of Rhode Island (URI.edu) notifies former and current students of of an incident involving the inappropriate collection, and possible use, of information related to some URI email accounts by an external individual.
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Web
August 19, 2015
The name, address, and credit card information of approximately 93,000 customers of Web.com, a popular US-based provider of Internet services to small businesses, is compromised due to a breach of one of the company's computer systems.
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UNICEF India
August 19, 2015
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[ hack, misconfiguration, government ]
A group of Turkish hackers going with the online handles of RootDevilz, Jonturk75 and Bozkurt97 deface the official website of UNICEF India (unicef.in) and post a message against China, US, UN, EU and Israel.
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mumsnet
August 19, 2015
An Internet troll with the nickname @DadSecurity takes down mumsnet.com and not happy with the result targets the portal co-founder Justine Roberts in a 'swatting' attack.
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Tianwang
August 18, 2015
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[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Tianwang, a rights and citizen journalism website based in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan says its operations have been paralyzed by an external attack.
